Candling Help!!!

[BantamBud]

Good luck to you to

 

[AlienChick]

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Yeah, "lockdown" is the last 3 days.

 

[BantamBud]

Lockdown is when you do not open the incubator at all and bring the humidity higher.You can add water by putting a straw and using a baby syringe.

 

[happyhens120]

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Hmmm... so my eggs have different hatch dates. How do you recommend I do this? I could perhaps borrow another incubator...

 

[Gypsy07]

If your eggs' hatch dates are just a couple of days apart, it won't matter much. When the first egg reaches its lockdown date, just lock them all down. Turing the eggs isn't so important that late on in the incubation so if you lock some down at day 16 instead of 18 it won't make too much difference...

If your hatch dates are much further apart than just a few days then borrowing another incubator to use as a hatcher is probably your best option. Lots of people do this. Have your incubator running at normal humidity and your hatcher incubator running at lockdown humidity. Then as each eggs reaches its lockdown date just transfer them over to the hatcher. Doing it this way means you'll have to open your hatcher when it should really be kept shut to preserve the high lockdown humidity, but as long as you do it really quickly, things should work out okay...

 

[happyhens120]

Good to know! Thanks!

 

[pete55]

Hi

Yes, better to wait until day 5-6 and the embryo will show clearly. However if you look a little more closely I think you'll find the air cell/air bubble is at the opposite end to where you marked it. It appears at the broad end (usually) and is shown as a flat line running vertically in your eggs. Dont worry as the eggs progress you'll soon get be able to detect the parts more clearly.

Best of luck

Pete

 

[Edwards' East of Eden]

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I toss at day 7 if they are clear-its obvious at 7 good and bad ones-total clear at day 7 gets pitched and sign of growth make it until the next cut off at day 14

So, sonew ... I started 'batin' silkies a week ago today. I don't have to keep the clear eggs any longer? Really?

This is my second hatch, and I'm a little more comfortable about what "clear" means, interpreted to an actual egg on a flashlight in front of me, in full 3D. I think I may have even seen a bloodring in real life now - but I'm going to hold on to that, in fear of letting a possible baby go out with the garbage. But - clear - I'm totally safe in tossing the eggs that I'm absolutely sure are clear?

 

[sonew123]

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I toss at day 7 if they are clear-its obvious at 7 good and bad ones-total clear at day 7 gets pitched and sign of growth make it until the next cut off at day 14

So, sonew ... I started 'batin' silkies a week ago today. I don't have to keep the clear eggs any longer? Really?

This is my second hatch, and I'm a little more comfortable about what "clear" means, interpreted to an actual egg on a flashlight in front of me, in full 3D. I think I may have even seen a bloodring in real life now - but I'm going to hold on to that, in fear of letting a possible baby go out with the garbage. But - clear - I'm totally safe in tossing the eggs that I'm absolutely sure are clear?

Let me make this clear I ( personally) throw my eggs away after a week if they are clear. 7 days with no growth-I know they will not grow or catch up. I have hatched hundreds upon hundreds of eggs in the past few years and I'm very sure of what a fertilized growing egg looks like-a blood ring-a quitter etc...I am not telling you to do the same until you are ready to be sure by 100%...If I see a blood ring at day 7 I hold onto it until day 10-just to make sure. Other than that I empty out all clears by day 7 -Also, my candling light can bring a ship to shore from a mile away! haha so a clear is TOTALLY clear all the way around for me

 

[Edwards' East of Eden]

Ha! I love the ship-to-shore analogy. That works.

Even though I'm antsy as all get-out, another three days won't kill me. I think.

Probably.

Surely.

Well, maybe.

I can wait. I can.

Where's that flashlight?